Chief of the Arms and Technology Department of the Defence Ministry is dismissed

 The Head of Arms  and Technology  Department of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan Yagub Ahadov dismissed. Defense Ministry's press service confirmed the information , and  said that the reason for dismissal  were errors in the work; it is nor reported what  shortcomings.

In turn, the site AzPolitika.info claims that Ahadov was  dismissed  after a visit  of the Deputy  Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin  to Baku on March 3, and a lawsuit was filed against him.  The publication suggests that between these events  are connected, and the Colonel  was dismissed   because of  arms contracts. So,  the talk may  be about the involvement of Ahadov to some "secret contract amuonting  $3.5 million."

Turan Agency was unable to get a comment in the Military Prosecutor's Office whether the case against Ahadov will be filed or not.

Rogozin arrived in Baku together with the leaders of "Rosoboronexport" and the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. The Russian press then wrote that the reason for the visit was refusal of  Baku to pay for the contracts  for delivered weapons.

However, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov stated soon that the problem as not a paymnt, but substandard goods wre delivered to  Baku. "The question is the necessity to correct the technical parameters of a few particular types of weapons," said Mammadyarov. -03D-